Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Entire Volume of CIA Files On Lee Harvey Oswald, Set to Be Released in October, Has ‘Gone Missing’

By Jack Burns - September 18, 2017

Countless concerned individuals are still searching for answers
surrounding the mysterious death of the 35th president of the United
States, John F. Kennedy. The official narrative, that a lone former
Marine named Harvey Oswald assassinated him, is widely disputed.

All available documents from all government entities are required by
the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 to be released
on October 26th of 2017. But if history repeats itself, the Central
Intelligence Agency may not release an entire volume of documents on
Oswald, known as “volume 5.”

As Sputnik reports, the release in July of 3,810
CIA and FBI documents on the assassination by the Assassination Records
Review Board threw up a number of revelations that JFK researchers have
hungrily devoured and enthusiastically publicized. For instance, the
mayor of Dallas at the time of Kennedy’s assassination, Earle Cabell, was a CIA asset in the 1950s, and his brother, Charles Cabell, a high-ranking CIA official until 1962.

The release in October has been highly anticipated by those seeking
answers. However, thanks to a deliberate fudging or records, or a
conveniently timed clerical error, an entire volume may never see the
light of day.

Inside Langley Air Force Base’s CIA Headquarters is an office known
as the Office of Security. The Office of Security maintains its own
top-secret archives known as the Office of Security Archival Holdings
and is a separate archive from the agency’s more frequently used
facility located in Alexandria, VA known as the Agency Archival Record
Center.

As late as 1977, the entire 7-volume collection of documents was intact,
having been checked out by Russ Holmes in the Office of General Counsel
and noted the 7-volume series was all together, not missing any
volumes. But when the CIA was asked to turn over the volume of documents
on Oswald, the hitman in the assassination, it seems the agency
stonewalled a bit, like a shell game according to independent
investigator Malcolm Blunt.

Blunt described the stonewalling:

This huge search by CIA did not surface Oswald’s security
files and the Assassination Records Review Board (AARB) remained
uninformed about their existence. Not until 1997 when an ARRB staffer
stumbled across evidence that two previous congressional investigations
had access to these files did CIA “discover” them.

The AARB eventually received the 7-volume set of documents on Oswald
in 1998, but staffers quickly realized there was one volume
missing—volume 5.

An agency explanation was offered that volume 5 could have been
consolidated into Volume 4, or Volume 6 for example. Eventually, the
agency concluded, according to Blunt, Volume 5 of Oswald’s Security file
may never have existed.

So far, 2017 has been a year of anticipation for JFK conspiracy
theorists as they await the release of all files surrounding the
assassination of one of the country’s most beloved presidents. One
group, known as the Citizens Against Political Assassinations, is
chomping at the bits to get to volume 5 and others. They believe the
official government narrative is full of holes and needs to be
investigated.

Many of its members are lawyers, and as TFTP has reported, have desired to clear Oswald’s name of any wrongdoing if possible.

But it is attorney Lawrence Schnapf, Chair of the Environmental Law
Section of the New York Bar Association, whose comments concerning the
current president and his relationship with the Deep State (implied but
not referred to as such) have the media ablaze with talk of yet another
political assassination.

Schnapf is the co-chair of the CAPA legal committee. After a brief
discussion of why JFK’s assassination is relevant today, Schnapf
compared the early 1960s with 2017. He said the Warren Commission was
the “original fake news” organization whose conclusions later became the
official government narrative. Although the commission refused to
pursue “exculpatory” information, which is now hidden behind “government
secrecy,” he says he hopes will come out this year, in compliance with
the JFK Assassination Records Act.

Turning attention again to the case of JFK, the group plans to use
the shell casings found on the scene and 21st-century ballistics
analyses to conclusively determine whether or not Oswald actually killed
JFK.

He said they’re first going to conduct a mock trial in November, and
later an official legal proceeding called a “Court of Inquiry,” an
official court proceeding to definitely prove “Lee Oswald was not the
shooter…that’s what we hope to prove.”

The group hopes to expunge Oswald’s name from the official narrative,
clearing not only his, but also his daughter’s, to “expunge the stain
of their father’s name from” theirs.

“Oswald was not convictable, much less indictable,” he concluded.

The reputable lawyer contends that the mainstream media often
overlooks the real story —that the government is not transparent — and
that the Department of Justice (which also includes the FBI) has been
politicized.